Well, hello!
The first of each month, I like to connect in a letter, where I can share with you first and more personally than a blog post allows.
On Maintaining Balance
We all struggle with it. Universally among women, it seems, we want to know how to find balance between all the things?
The primary plates I need kept spinning are parenting; writing and speaking; the house, bills & errands; exercise, and my ladies’ Sunday school class. Yours may look a bit different. Some weeks it looks less like balanced plates and more like whack-a-mole.
Some days, I invest gobs of time and energy on schooling kids; some days, my teaching is cut short because I’m speaking or writing. Some days, a healthy dinner’s in the crockpot and the house is sparkling and some days, we grab pizza at 8:00 pm after ballet or basketball or youth group. I love long afternoons spent writing but too much means I’m not moving and exercising.
After a January with Seth’s doctors, the hospital and recovery, February was a month of tending to neglected plates that had wobbled to a standstill. I felt behind all month. But I realized again that perfect balance on any given day – or week – is elusive. The work God has given me means I have multiple needs and He orders them.
Maintaining perfect balance is because I want control. Perfection. And my expectations met to the T. But my time is God’s – all of it; my finances are His – all of it. My agenda is His. If I will steward those well, I can trust God to order my steps and rest in what lies yet unfinished. As a single mom, doing alone so much of what was shared work, this has kept me steady – even when life feels unbalanced.
On Finishing Well
It has been two of the most refreshing weeks I can remember as my feed has filled with Billy Graham quotes and messages. Oh the inspiration of one who trusted God completely, whose faith leaped where God led, whose zeal grew as he aged and who was singularly focused until his last earthly breath.
A friend said that perhaps not since Paul has a man so impacted the kingdom of God. Yesterday’s remarks by his children at his funeral, especially the passionate charge of Anne Graham Lotz, were unforgettable. [forward to 26:30]
